Dear Release Team, I believe we're now pretty much ready for an upload of MySQL 5.7 to unstable. This would be src:mysql-5.7, which would eventually supersede src:mysql-5.6, with a general s/5.6/5.7/ in the binary package names.
One significant change is the transition from libmysqlclient18 to libmysqlclient20. Existing packages depending on libmysqlclient18 or libmysqlclient-dev are already instructed to move to default-libmysqlclient-dev, and that dependency tree does not require anything from src:mysql-5.6 or src:mysql-5.7 at all, as instructed by you. I presume therefore, that due to bug 837615, there is no need to request a transition slot, so we can proceed when we're ready. If this is incorrect, please let us know. For reference, our packaging for 5.7 is ready at: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql.git/log/?h=mysql-5.7/debian/master Thanks, Robie